YAHRZEITS FOR THE 20TH OF ADAR II ~ BEGINS FRIDAY NIGHT (03-30-2024)
Rav Yoel Sirkis - Bach (5401 / 1641 - 383rd Yahrzeit)
Rav Yoel was the Rabbi of Krakow and author of the Bayit Chadash ("Bach") commentary on the great Halachic work, the Arba'ah Turim. He served as Rav of Belz from שעב-שעד. The Bach was invited to serve as Rav in Shidlov which he gladly accepted. Afterwards he served as Rav in Brisk and from there as Rav of Cracow where he passed away 20 Adar.תא
Rav Shabsai Ish Lipshitz - Tiferes Yaakov V'Segulos Yisroel (5689 / 1929 - 95th Yahrzeit)
Rav Moshe Yehoshua Hager - of Vizhnitz, the Yeshuos Moshe (5772 / 2012 - 12th Yahrzeit)
The Yeshuos Moshe, Rav Moshe Yehoshua Hager, was born on 13 Sivan 5676/1916, in Vilchovitz, Romania to his mother, Rebbetzin Margalis, a daughter of Rav Ze’ev of Rachmastrivka and to his father the Imrei Chaim of Vizhnitz. Already during his father’s lifetime, he was the Rosh Yeshivah of the yeshivos of Vizhnitz. When his father passed away in 5732/1972, he succeeded him as Rebbe, leading his flock for the next forty years. He was the Nasi of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudas Yisrael.
YAHRZEITS FOR THE 21ST OF ADAR II ~ BEGINS SATURDAY NIGHT (03-31-2024)
Rav Meir Schiff - Maharam Schiff (5401 / 1641 - 383rd Yahrzeit)
Rav Eliyohu HaKohen of Izmir - Shevet Mussar (5489 / 1729 - 295th Yahrzeit)
Rabbi Eliyohu Hakohen of Izmir, Turkey [1650 - 1 Adar B 1729], is best known as the author of Shevet Mussar, a major work of Torah ethics and morality. He also wrote Midrash Talpiot. In the historical work, Shem HaGedolim, it states, "Rabbi Eliyahu HaKohen of Izmir wrote almost 40 books and turned many away from sin with his public lectures."
YAHRZEITS FOR THE 22ND OF ADAR II ~ BEGINS SUNDAY NIGHT (04-01-2024)
Rav Yeshaya Shimonowitz - Rosh Yeshiva Rav Yaakov Yosef US
Rav Yosef Bloch of Alesk-Stanov - Ginzei Yosef (5550 / 1790 - 234th Yahrzeit)
Rav Chaim Meir Zev HaKohen Zelfreund - Shaarei Chaim (5592 / 1832 - 192nd Yahrzeit)
Rav Shlomo of Apta - Shvilei Torah (5593 / 1833 - 191st Yahrzeit)
Rav Yitzchok Isaac Weiss of Svelive - Divrei Yitzchok (5654 / 1894 - 130th Yahrzeit)
Rav Yechiel Michel Epstein - Aruch HaShulchon (5668 / 1908 - 116th Yahrzeit)
Rav Eliezer Dovid of Radoshitz (5687 / 1927 - 97th Yahrzeit)
Rav Avrohom Duber Kahana Shapira - Av Beis Din of Kovno, Devar Avrohom (5703 / 1943 - 81st Yahrzeit)
Rav Reuven Grozovsky - Rosh Yeshivas Kaminetz & Torah Vodaas (5718 / 1958 - 66th Yahrzeit)
Rav Reuven was a Torah giant who served as Rosh Yeshiva in the pre-war Kaminetzer Yeshiva and after the Churban in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and Beth Medrash Elyon in Monsey. He was an engineer of the budding, fledgling Torah community in post war America. He was tremendously active in hatzalah work during the Holocuast and moser nefesh to try to save the remnant of European Jewry located in Europe, Siberia and Shanghai. Rav Reuven became perhaps the greatest voice of true hashkafas haTorah in the first decade after World War II when the difficult question arose of how G-d fearing Jews were to relate to the new phenomenon of the secular State of Israel.
Rav Yisroel Moshe Dushinksy (5763 / 2003 - 21st Yahrzeit)
Rav Yisrael Moshe Dushinsky (1921-2003). Born in Chust, Hungary, to Rav Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, Rav of Chust (later to become Rav and Av Beis Din of the Eida Charedis of Yerushalayim). The family moved to Eretz Yisrael in Adar of 1930. On Erev Sukkos of 1949, his father was niftar, and the 27-year-old Rav Yisrael Moshe was appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Dushinsky. In 1969, he was inducted as a member of the Eidah Charedis. He became S’gan Beis Din after the Satmar Rebbe’s petira and the Av Beis Din in 1996.
